they made us choose which one of us would be shot first. when we refused there were mock shootings. >> we will tell you how you can help vdot come up with the next big traffic master plan in northern virginia. $30 >>> life and death experience important nbc news chief correspondent richard engel and his production crew has ended and ended well. the journalists were kidnapped in northwestern syria last thursday. they escaped into turkey last night in the middle of a fire fight between their captors and syrian rebels. >> as we were moving down the road, a group of gunmen justly rally jumped out of the trees and bushes on the side of the road there, probably 15 gunmen and they kept us blindfolded and bound and we weren't physically beaten orator toured. lot of psychological torture. threats of being killed. they made us choose which one of us would be shot first. and when we refused there were mock shootings. as we were driving along the road, the -- kidnappers saw this checkpoint and started a gunfight and two of the kidnappers were killed. w